We invite you to participate in our second Act for Equality webinar of the year in partnership with the Vues d'Afrique international film festival.
This webinar is a discussion between Charly Wai Feldman, producer of the documentary The Great Green Wall, Laïty Ndiaye, gender volunteer, and Aïssatou Faye Sow, environmental volunteer This discussion focuses on the issues related to the impacts of climate change in Africa from a feminist perspective. In other words, it is about understanding the strategies adopted by women to adapt to these changes and provide leadership in climate action.
This discussion is part of International Women's Rights Day.
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Aïssatou Faye Sow
Advisor in environment and adaptation to climate change of CECI in Senegal, Aissatou holds a degree in economics and politics from the University of Montreal and a DESS in management and sustainable development from HEC Montreal. Her academic and professional background make her a multidisciplinary resource for international cooperation. She believes deeply in women as key actors in the fight against climate change. "Developing their resilience has an important direct effect on their personal empowerment but also on that of their community. Increasing their leadership participates in their empowerment as well as better preservation of the environment."
Laïty Ndiaye
Laïty is a sociologist and community organizer with over ten years of experience in research, training, advocacy, capacity building, and project management in Senegal and Canada. She has been involved with CECI since September 2020. She was a gender equality advisor for the FAR (Resilient Women and Agriculture) project. She is currently a gender equality and women's economic empowerment advisor for CECI's intervention countries in Africa (Benin, Rwanda, Senegal, Burkina-Faso). Laïty is also a lecturer. Her teaching focuses on critical development theories, feminist movements, anti-racist and anti-colonial movements.
Charly Wai Feldman
Charly Wai Feldman is a writer, producer and documentary filmmaker based in London UK, though she also calls Montreal, Vietnam, Hong Kong, India and Singapore home. She has made films in over 20 countries, many with international distribution. Her work includes The Talwars - a four-part HBO series, and This is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees, which premiered at IDFA and won the Amnesty International Award in 2016. More recently, Charly produced award-winning feature documentary the Great Green Wall, in collaboration with director Jared Scott, singer and activist Inna Modja, and executive producer Fernando Meirelles, and created a series called Inside the Cryptokingdom exploring the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. She is currently directing her first feature documentary, I am Sarah, and is the recipient of the 2020 Malik Bendjelloul Memorial Fund. She has served as a jury member for Royal Television Society and is a proud member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
